PASSION PIT
Once known around here as the little electro-pop band that could, Passion Pit graduated to the big leagues with last year’s release of its sophomore album, “Gossamer.” Even though most of the band members now live in New York, frontman Michael Angelakos still considers Passion Pit a Boston band. Indie-pop duo Matt & Kim will handle the opening slot. Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $37.50. Agganis Arena. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

POP & ROCK

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN
Fresh from stealing the show at John Cale’s recent tribute to Nico in New York, Joan Wasser returns to her old stomping grounds with new material to try out. Wasser, a musical chameleon who played in Boston bands such as the Dambuilders, is in between records but recently gave a hint about her next move on her Facebook page: “One [song] I finished tonight I feel I could have sold to Foreigner if they still existed.” Her longtime friend Rick Berlin will open with a set at 7:30 p.m.. Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $14. Lizard Lounge. 617-547-0759, www.brownpapertickets.com

THE RESIDENTS
They’re now in their fourth decade as early pioneers of experimental music, and yet the Residents are still enshrouded in mystery, including the identities of the band members. (They’re listed on Facebook as “Randy, Chuck & Bob”) They come to town on a 40th-anniversary tour dubbed “Wonder of Weird.” Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $35. Institute of Contemporary Art. 617-876-4275, www.worldmusic.org

CODY CHESNUTT
On “Landing on a Hundred,” his deeply felt new album, Chesnutt strikes the rare balance betweeb evoking soul and funk’s glory days and taking the genres into new and unexpected places. Feb. 13, 9 p.m. Tickets: $16. Brighton Music Hall. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY

BLOODSHOT BILL is Canadian. He’s a one-man band who seems to put out a record every other week. He plays rockabilly, hillbilly, and rock ’n’ roll. He has his own brand of custom-made hair grease. And if you want to do something for him, he loves him some spaghetti and meat sauce — just not too much before the show. Feb. 8, 10:30 p.m. Tickets: $5. Plough & Stars, Cambridge. 617-576-0032, www.ploughandstars.com

JEFFERY BROUSSARD & THE CREOLE COWBOYS Broussard got his start in Zydeco with his father’s band, swung toward innovation through his membership in Zydeco Force, and has come back to an emphasis on preserving traditional Creole Zydeco sounds with his own band. Of course, whether he’s preserving or innovating, he also wants to make you dance. Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $25. Belleville Congregational Church, Newburyport. 978-465-7734, www.mktix.com/bc

DONNA THE BUFFALO Roger Miller once famously sang that you can’t roller-skate in a buffalo herd, and if you’re at this rootsy jam band’s show Saturday, you won’t be able to sit down in the midst of one, either. To accommodate “the Herd,” as fans of Donna the Buffalo call themselves, the venue has pulled its usual seating for a standing-room only arrangement. Feb. 9, 8 p.m. Tickets: $25. Center for the Arts in Natick. 508-647-0097, www.natickarts.org

FRONTIER RUCKUS This group plays what it calls “dense folk.” It’s full of banjos, pedal steel, trumpets, singing saws, and Matthew Milia’s “suburban memory landscapes,” drawn from growing up and living in Michigan — or, as the songwriter somewhat more elliptically puts it in the liner notes to the band’s new double CD, “Eternity of Dimming,” from “the existentially robust world in which I live.” Feb 10, 9 p.m. Tickets: $10. Great Scott. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

DONAL FOX WITH MAYA BEISER Pianist/composer Fox’s music is an utterly convincing merger of jazz, classical, and Latin music. For this concert, he’ll be joined by renowned cellist Beiser, a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, for “Piazzolla to Bach,” his jazz-tinged exploration of the music of the Argentine new tango composer and the Baroque master. Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m. $30-$35. Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave. 617-478-3103, www.icaboston.org

CLASSICAL

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA: CLEMENCY
The American premiere of a new Genesis-themed opera by Scottish composer James Macmillan, with a libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts. Feb. 7-10. Artists for Humanity EpiCenter. 617-542-4912, www.blo.org

STEPHEN DRURY The pianist and new music expert performs a free solo recital that includes one of his signature pieces — Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — alongside Webern’s Variations, Op. 27. 8 p.m., Feb. 10. Jordan Hall. 617-585-1260, www.necmusic.edu/stephen-drury

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